PSNI Recruitment 2015

Johannes_Cabal · 09-12-2015 12:53am

Just had a look at Police Scotland recruitment and it says their process takes 6-9 weeks....that's a blink of the eye over here lol, they also have ongoing recruitment, tempted to apply.

MikeOneJuliet · 09-12-2015 1:28am

Johannes_Cabal wrote: »

Just had a look at Police Scotland recruitment and it says their process takes 6-9 weeks....that's a blink of the eye over here lol, they also have ongoing recruitment, tempted to apply.

It's worth a go. The job is much different according to a colleague of mine who transferred, and apparently PSNI is far better but it's still worth it

Johannes_Cabal · 09-12-2015 1:35am

I suppose it would be a foot in the door and the opportunity to gain core skills that would be transferable if chose to come home and apply for PSNI again.

Thanks for the extra info though, it gives me something to mull over whilst waiting about on IST results.

MikeOneJuliet · 09-12-2015 9:23am

Johannes_Cabal wrote: »

I suppose it would be a foot in the door and the opportunity to gain core skills that would be transferable if chose to come home and apply for PSNI again.

Thanks for the extra info though, it gives me something to mull over whilst waiting about on IST results.

It's all experience and at the end of the day, you'd still have the job you're after!

KevBo2015 · 10-12-2015 3:58pm

You can't apply for the Police in Scotland whilst you have an application ongoing with any other police service.

Taken from their website, (as I remember thinking the same thing waiting for my IST results this time last year! My god its a long process.... took me 15 months!)

- You cannot apply if you have submitted an application that is still being considered by any other police force.

- You cannot apply if you have been rejected by any police force in the UK in the last 6 months.

http://www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment/police-officers/eligibility/

Johannes_Cabal · 10-12-2015 7:25pm

KevBo2015 wrote: »

You can't apply for the Police in Scotland whilst you have an application ongoing with any other police service.

Taken from their website, (as I remember thinking the same thing waiting for my IST results this time last year! My god its a long process.... took me 15 months!)

- You cannot apply if you have submitted an application that is still being considered by any other police force.

- You cannot apply if you have been rejected by any police force in the UK in the last 6 months.

http://www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment/police-officers/eligibility/

Cheers, didn't notice that bit.

D4z · 11-12-2015 4:36pm

Johannes_Cabal wrote: »

Just had a look at Police Scotland recruitment and it says their process takes 6-9 weeks....that's a blink of the eye over here lol, they also have ongoing recruitment, tempted to apply.

Scotland have consolidated training events, you arrive on the Monday and you'll finish on the Wednesday/Thursday with a conditional offer pending medical and vetting.

Being from Northern Ireland you'll need to attend the training events in Aberdeen, the next consolidated event is in 22nd February. Few of my friends transferred to Scotland and they love it.

Johannes_Cabal · 11-12-2015 7:19pm

D4z wrote: »

Scotland have consolidated training events, you arrive on the Monday and you'll finish on the Wednesday/Thursday with a conditional offer pending medical and vetting.

Being from Northern Ireland you'll need to attend the training events in Aberdeen, the next consolidated event is in 22nd February. Few of my friends transferred to Scotland and they love it.

I wish I could apply alongside the PSNI but can't, so I'll see how the pans out.

Hopefully if it doesn't work out here I'll apply for Scotland sometime in the future.

Mop a top · 12-12-2015 2:34pm

Well folks that date is getting closer, anyone else got the excited, nervous twisted knots in the gut yet?

Timetravel · 12-12-2015 2:38pm

Mop a top wrote: »

Well folks that date is getting closer, anyone else got the excited, nervous twisted knots in the gut yet?

Haven't thought about it much this time around but looking forward to finding out now

Bustermoon · 12-12-2015 5:31pm

Mop a top wrote: »

Well folks that date is getting closer, anyone else got the excited, nervous twisted knots in the gut yet?

Only finally got IST out of the way very very recently so currently enjoying the relief of one thing off the list before back to hitting the online learning, training for pca!! My prediction for results is 5.30 on Thursday evening!

Mop a top · 13-12-2015 3:10pm

Are we starting a book lol

tirchonaill77 · 15-12-2015 10:13pm

Maybe a silly question but I honestly don't know the answer. Has the 50/50 recruitment stopped in the PSNI?

WannabePC · 15-12-2015 10:21pm

tirchonaill77 wrote: »

Maybe a silly question but I honestly don't know the answer. Has the 50/50 recruitment stopped in the PSNI?

The 50/50 rule has been abolished and hasn't been used in the last 2 campaigns.

Johannes_Cabal · 15-12-2015 10:23pm

tirchonaill77 wrote: »

Maybe a silly question but I honestly don't know the answer. Has the 50/50 recruitment stopped in the PSNI?

Yeah, it stopped as of the beginning of 2013 campaign.

Redboy12345 · 03-01-2016 2:35am

Hi Guys! Newbie here.. Through to assessment centre end of Jan, any tips? (Within the rules), very informative reading the fourm, thanks to all.

Goodluck to everyone!

Goonerdee · 08-01-2016 1:56pm

Redboy12345 wrote: »

Hi Guys! Newbie here.. Through to assessment centre end of Jan, any tips? (Within the rules), very informative reading the fourm, thanks to all.

Goodluck to everyone!

End of Jan? Mine is much later than that! :-o

Don't make the same mistake I did and not read all the information correctly! Apart from that, it is all down to your communication skills.

Mop a top · 11-01-2016 11:53pm

Anyone else had their AC venue changed??? Bit raging cos I'd booked a room for the night before so I wasn't road raging in heels lmfao

Johannes_Cabal · 11-01-2016 11:59pm

Mop a top wrote: »

Anyone else had their AC venue changed??? Bit raging cos I'd booked a room for the night before so I wasn't road raging in heels lmfao

I got the email but my AC isn't at the venue they are changing.

SamC321 · 12-01-2016 12:36am

Mop a top wrote: »

Anyone else had their AC venue changed??? Bit raging cos I'd booked a room for the night before so I wasn't road raging in heels lmfao

Same boat, got the email this afternoon

Johannes_Cabal · 13-01-2016 5:16pm

Glad to have the AC out of the way, hard part done in my opinion.

Mixed feelings about how well I have done, but only time will tell.

Goonerdee · 14-01-2016 2:40pm

Can't believe some have the AC done already, mine is so far away!

Johannes_Cabal · 14-01-2016 2:58pm

Goonerdee wrote: »

Can't believe some have the AC done already, mine is so far away!

The only down side to mine being so early, is I'll have to wait much longer for the results.

shanevendrell · 28-01-2016 11:49pm

Folks, am I right or wrong in saying that in campaigns 1 and 2 that there was early phasing of recruits through to the latter stages before others had finished their AC's or am I wrong? Essentially, is there an advantage to having to go first?

Johannes_Cabal · 29-01-2016 1:40am

shanevendrell wrote: »

Folks, am I right or wrong in saying that in campaigns 1 and 2 that there was early phasing of recruits through to the latter stages before others had finished their AC's or am I wrong? Essentially, is there an advantage to having to go first?

Have you had your AC yet?

I believe in C1 the highest scoring candidates were phased through at first and the remainder sent a delay email/letter. I think it was pretty much a similar thing with C2.

Goonerdee · 29-01-2016 8:56am

Phasing happens after AC. No advantage to doing it first.

Homer01 · 29-01-2016 9:40am

Johannes_Cabal wrote: »

Have you had your AC yet?

I believe in C1 the highest scoring candidates were phased through at first and the remainder sent a delay email/letter. I think it was pretty much a similar thing with C2.

What he said. So yes advantage to go first AND score exceptionally well.

Timetravel · 29-01-2016 2:18pm

Have my AC done also. Was told at it that you could be phased through before you get your AC result to do the PCA and then you would have the possibility of passing PCA then getting your AC result and being out of the running. Highly doubt that this would ever happen. As far as I am aware you have to pass the AC before you can do PCA and you may get a breakdown of your AC score once you've done the PCA.

WannabePC · 29-01-2016 4:39pm

Timetravel wrote: »

Have my AC done also. Was told at it that you could be phased through before you get your AC result to do the PCA and then you would have the possibility of passing PCA then getting your AC result and being out of the running. Highly doubt that this would ever happen. As far as I am aware you have to pass the AC before you can do PCA and you may get a breakdown of your AC score once you've done the PCA.

I would really doubt that people would get a date for the PCA before getting the AC results at all, especially if you haven't scored high enough to pass. Deloitte manage the process up until the AC stage and then hand the list of applicants who passed to the PSNI who then process the applicants according to highest order of merit in phases of about 100 or so. It's in your interest to score as high as possible at the AC so you get processed through in the first fee batches and stand a better chance of getting in if they're only taking a minimal amount of recruits.

Johannes_Cabal · 29-01-2016 10:18pm

Timetravel wrote: »

Have my AC done also. Was told at it that you could be phased through before you get your AC result to do the PCA and then you would have the possibility of passing PCA then getting your AC result and being out of the running. Highly doubt that this would ever happen. As far as I am aware you have to pass the AC before you can do PCA and you may get a breakdown of your AC score once you've done the PCA.

I was told the same, asked the lady carrying out the debrief a few questions about it and she was fairly certain they could phase candidates through stages before the AC results are released. I don't know how they could do it but it is what is being said by Deloitte.

Goonerdee · 30-01-2016 6:45pm

I dont think that can be true. As far as I recall there is a pass mark in the AC, you would need all the results in before you could set a pass mark.

WannabePC · 30-01-2016 7:25pm

Goonerdee wrote: »

I dont think that can be true. As far as I recall there is a pass mark in the AC, you would need all the results in before you could set a pass mark.

I think the pass park is set at 60% every year and doesn't budge. It was for the last 2 campaigns but we'll see what happens for this one.

Johannes_Cabal · 30-01-2016 7:39pm

Goonerdee wrote: »

I dont think that can be true. As far as I recall there is a pass mark in the AC, you would need all the results in before you could set a pass mark.

According to the Deloitte rep at the AC, it's possible they may process candidates before AC results go out, not saying it makes any sense though. It basically comes down to what the PSNI want to do, after all they control how the recruitment process is carried out. It doesn't really matter how it was done in previous years, they could make everyone act out Macbeth if they felt it would benefit the process.

They could be thinking if they begin the vetting and medical process early on it would help cut the amount of high scorers not getting in due to either of these stages taking too long. I don't know, like everything in this process we can second guess and query why they do things, but we'll just never know.

shanevendrell · 01-02-2016 5:48pm

Can confirm what the others have said, phasing to begin in March for selected candidates before results are out.

iamveryhopeful · 01-02-2016 5:52pm

shanevendrell wrote: »

Can confirm what the others have said, phasing to begin in March for selected candidates before results are out.

is this good news or bad news for the 1405 campaign?

Does it mean they are so in need of new recruits they are blasting 1405ers through even past the supposed cut off date of March/April. And then fast tracking this latest campaign?

Or does it mean they are close to cutting off the 1405 campaign so they need to start pulling from the new one asap......

Johannes_Cabal · 01-02-2016 8:01pm

iamveryhopeful wrote: »

is this good news or bad news for the 1405 campaign?

Does it mean they are so in need of new recruits they are blasting 1405ers through even past the supposed cut off date of March/April. And then fast tracking this latest campaign?

Or does it mean they are close to cutting off the 1405 campaign so they need to start pulling from the new one asap......

Personally I'd take it as a good sign.

Just a thought, but they could be doing it in order to maximise squad numbers, so instead of 25 being called for the last squad/s of C2, they may also call the high scorers in C3 to fill that intake up. Obviously that depends on how low on the C2 merit list they go and when that would be, also depends on whether or not they actually do start phasing C3 early and if the dates overlap. Just a thought though....probably a load of waffle in reality.

Ghost15 · 01-02-2016 8:03pm

Wouldn't get my hopes up.. remember when deloitte told us all that our results for c3 would be out by midnight on that exact date and they never came? Lol

Johannes_Cabal · 01-02-2016 8:07pm

Ghost15 wrote: »

Wouldn't get my hopes up.. remember when deloitte told us all that our results for c3 would be out by midnight on that exact date and they never came? Lol

It's a shame we can't get clarification from the PSNI.

As much as I believe that Deloitte are providing us with accurate info, I can't help but be cautious of any possible miscommunication between themselves and the PSNI regarding this. I suppose we just have to sit tight.

Mop a top · 01-02-2016 10:36pm

Vetting seems to be the major hold up for anyone who's hadn't cleared in previous campaigns. Perhaps they'll start with that since its only paperwork and easily organised into a merit list after grades are achieved. Or perhaps anyone who scores 90%+ will get an invite to PCA before the grades are issued

WannabePC · 02-02-2016 1:38am

shanevendrell wrote: »

Can confirm what the others have said, phasing to begin in March for selected candidates before results are out.

Do you mind if I ask how you know this buddy?

iamveryhopeful · 02-02-2016 10:17am

Johannes_Cabal wrote: »

It's a shame we can't get clarification from the PSNI.

As much as I believe that Deloitte are providing us with accurate info, I can't help but be cautious of any possible miscommunication between themselves and the PSNI regarding this. I suppose we just have to sit tight.

Haha you're telling me. Evidently they don't communicate at all!

Timetravel · 02-02-2016 12:45pm

It's weird that they would put people through PCA before the results are out. If I'm honest when I was told this at first I thought it was a mistake. Stressful enough taking this process one step at a time never mind doing juggling two parts lol

Johannes_Cabal · 02-02-2016 1:40pm

Timetravel wrote: »

It's weird that they would put people through PCA before the results are out. If I'm honest when I was told this at first I thought it was a mistake. Stressful enough taking this process one step at a time never mind doing juggling two parts lol

I thought it was a mistake too so asked more about it.

The only reason I can think of for doing it like that is to reduce the amount of time it takes from application to getting the call, as we have seen on here from C1 and C2 there are folks still waiting to complete stages after a year and a half.

I think (and as Mop a Top said) they will start with vetting stage as it seems to take the longest to reach completion for most people.

I was looking at Police Scotland a few months ago and they have you fill out the vetting forms as part of your initial application, and their turnaround times are no where near as long as the PSNI.

shanevendrell · 02-02-2016 1:43pm

WannabePC wrote: »

Do you mind if I ask how you know this buddy?

It's on both the document issued at the end of the AC and we were told this verbally.

Homer01 · 02-02-2016 6:30pm

Just want to confirm what others have said. My understanding was that as the AC is marked it is sent to the PSNI. They then may call people forward for PCA, I assume it will be the high scorers.

Redboy12345 · 02-02-2016 7:43pm

Probably repeating what has been said in the last few replies; in my view it seems this year is different from other years and they are phasing candidates through before we get our AC results through (maybe they have had feedback on how excruciating previous campaigns have been . Maybe the 'fast track' is coming into play here. And it certainly is possible for them to start phasing candidates through at the start of march, with only a handful of A.Cs left.

Anyhow, good luck to all.

KevBo2015 · 02-02-2016 9:26pm

Is this not like a bit of small print at the bottom of the sheet? Nearly sure I remember something like that being mentioned at the AC stage of the second campaign, correct me if I am wrong however.

I would not get all jumped up and excited about it these things take time, I'd imagine the start date of July/Aug of campaign 1 and 2 for the first squads will be a solid guess. The PSNI is a big machine and things take time, lot of other promotion, movement, training and planning goes on within the organization.

IUA14 · 29-03-2016 10:54am

Anyone heard anything further after the assessment centre?

Mop a top · 29-03-2016 11:50am

Nothing! Thought it was 15th

ItWasntMe88 · 29-03-2016 11:54am

Nope, nothing here either.

It seems they didn't go ahead with the phased processing of candidates through the PCA.

PSNI Recruitment 2015

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